The Terraria Olympics will be a series of competitions during August (5th - 21st). Different teams will compete, each team will represent a community. Competitions will be split into Open and Live events. This is the general planning pages, feel free to add any suggestions or input. The goal is for the end of this month to have all the events decided, including dates, times and rules. Also to have all the teams decided.

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Teams
-Each team will have any amount of Leaders, who are in charge of organising their team. They can promote the Olympics as much as they want to get players to join, and choose who will be playing for their team in the Live Events. Each team will need a set of vanity (head, shirt and pants + dyes for each) and a flag (painted flag walls in game, 8 blocks by 6).
-At this early stage I do not know which teams there will be exactly, there are 9 teams at the time of writing that will probably play, there are more communities I wish to ask, if you have any good Terraria communities you think would be interested then contact me about them.

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Points System
If a player finishes in the top 16 of an event they will earn their team some points. This is how many points will be earned for each position:

16th - 9th: 10 points
8th - 5th: 15 points
4th: 25 points
3rd: 40 points
2nd: 60 points
1st: 100 points

At the end of the Olympics the teams will be ranked by the total amount of points earned. Players will also score their teams bronze/silver/gold medals for finishing 3rd/2nd/1st, these do not count towards rankings.

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Open Events
-Anyone at all can enter these competitions, they will sign up via this forum. There they will choose which team they wish to be a part off, so teams can promote to get people to play in the Olympics for their team. Players do not need to choose a team - unassigned players will be spread to teams with less players. These events will generally last a week, allowing a lot of time for anyone to compete.

Live Events
-Each team will choose one person (or group for team events) to represent them in each event. These events will generally happen in a short period, making it much easier to organise and can be recorded by any team.

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Events will be split into different categories, for the type of competition they are, here is a run down of the events planned right now, they can still change:

Building

Free (Open/Live)
-No limitations on size/items etc, there will be a theme. Timed and on a server for the Live version only.

Challenge (Open/Live)
-Limitation on size/items etc, there will be a theme. Timed and on a server for the Live version only.

Map (Open only)
-Create a playable challenge map, there will be a theme. It must be designed to take a short amount of time, say 5-10 minutes, as large maps can take a lot of time to build.

Mechanical (Open/Live)
-Create a mechanical system to complete an objective (or multiple) while the player is afk. E.g. create something to kill a boss as quickly as possible. There will probably be limitations on what items can be used, to avoid people creating machines which are too powerful or similar to each other, they would have to be submitted privately so designs aren't copied. Timed and on a server for the Live version only.

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Art

General (Open only)
-Classic or digital artwork, with a theme.

Pixel (Open only)
-Spriting/pixel art, with a theme.

Vanity (Open only)
-Using only equip-able items in Terraria to create the best looking outfit, with a theme.

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Speedrun

Classic (Open/Live)
-Standard speedrun to complete an objective (or multiple objectives) as fast as possible.

Prepared (Open/Live)
-Everyone is given the same world and objective (or multiple objectives) and can attempt as many times as they like with this world.

Challenge (Open/Live)
-Unique limitations are set for this challenge, e.g. hardcore, limiting which items can be used, do things in a certain order.

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Time Trial

Track (Open only)
-Get the fastest time on a racing style map.

Boss (Open only)
-Get the fastest time to defeat a boss within an arena.

Adventure (Open only)
-Get the fastest time through an adventure map.

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PvP

Classic CtG (Open/live)
-Classic Capture the Gem tournament, with slightly updated rules to work with 1.3.1. 2 teams have a base a chest with a gem, they have time to build defense over their gem and get gear then they fight to capture the opposing teams gem, players must be new/mediumcore. Teams of 3 required, substitute(s) recommended.

Racing (Open/live)
-Racing tournament, each stage of the tournaments will have different maps in the same style, using the same item set (hook, hermes, triple jump).

Spleef (Open/live)
-Spleef tournament, each stage will have multiple types of spleef. Spleef is a game where players are in a small arena, with blocks above a pit of lava. Players can mine blocks to make other players fall into lava.

Hunger Games (Open/live)
-Hunger games tournament. Each game will be on a new world with new hardcore characters, with a border to limit the area. Players some time to prepare then they can fight to the death.

Modern CtG (Open/live)
-Class CtG tournament, a balanced CtF style team game, which includes an arena you can build in, varied classes with abilities and different arena events. Teams of 3 required, substitute(s) recommended.

End-Game Duel (Open/live)
-Dueling tournament in an arena, each duel is a best of 5. End game gear allowed, with certain item restrictions.

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Final Event

Decathlon (Live only)
-A series of different challenges combined into a race.